Steve and myself have been bashing away at this in the background via PM and in the name of transparency and to get some more eyes on the problem I thought we would let every one know where we are at. So using AHK to run a winactivate command to activate the VP window after a 7 second wait does indeed pull focus back to VP long enough to coin up but then somehow focus is again lost later?. However if we then add a second Winactivate after another 7 second sleep this fails?, adding a loop to keep activating may work but is no solution and who knows how game play will be affected. This I think though can probably rule out PinballX?, so we started to suspect something grounding out and producing unwanted key press`s, or a rogue input device sending ghost inputs. This though leads to the question as to why only when loaded through PinballX?, unless the extra windows opened are what is being clicked maybe?. Steve has now upgraded his nudge device and still has focus woes so any other input is most welcome. One thing I am unsure of Steve is if you are using your new nudge device for buttons aswell or do you have a separate encoder?. Also can you see any ghost inputs firing when the onscreen keyboard is active or anything under joystick properties?. Wondering also if any signal(usb) lines are running too close to power lines or alongside contactors or the sub maybe? What happens steve if you unplug all usb inputs ledwiz aswell and then plug in a external keyboard?, this would rule out noise then?.